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For the contractor who is new in the construction business, the decision whether to rent or purchase equipment is usually quite easy to...

Preparing a quantity takeoff of concrete work requires the estimator to measure a combination of items—some of which are shown on the dr...

Certainly the fastest, and probably the most accurate, way to calculate volumes of cut and fill over a site, when true scale drawings are a...

The formwork operations involve a number of activities including fabricating and erecting the forms, stripping, moving, and cleaning and o...

The methods  of construction estimating can easily be integrated with the latest technology available to obtain soaring productivity; it...

It is not the intention of this manual to hold anything new for the top flight general construction estimator whose ability, know-how and...

The idea for writing a quantity surveyor’s pocket book came to me while reading The Dangerous Book for Boys by Hal Iggulden. For those wh...

My aims in this book are to introduce a practical approach to estimating and tendering from a contractor’s point of view, and explain the e...

Estimating is the technique of calculating or Computing the various quantities and the expected Expenditure to be incurred on a particula...